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Ideophones in Kambaata (Cushitic): Grammar, meaning and use

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
In the literature on Cushitic languages, ideophones have often only been treated in a cursory manner. A little explored problem of the synchronic analysis concerns their word class status: do they constitute a word class on their own, or should they be ...
Yvonne Treis
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A Note on Setswana Onomatopoeia

Studies in African Linguistics, 2023
The Setswana language, like other African languages, has a rich word class category of onomatopoeia that are derived from diverse sound sources in the environment of the speakers. Onomatopoeia are sounds imitations.
Andy Chebanne
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In the shadows of gratitude: On mooded spaces of vulnerability and care

Ethos, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 20-36, March 2024.
Abstract Gratitude is a ubiquitous phenomenon in everyday social interactions, yet it has received relatively little attention within anthropology. Past approaches to gratitude have focused on its practical expressions within exchange relationships. In contrast, this article considers the phenomenology of gratitude as a moral mood.
Jason Danely
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Ideophones in Gizey grammar [PDF]

This paper discusses ideophonicity in Gizey (Chadic), viz., the ability of a word to depict sensory experiences. The term “ideophone” is frequently attested in the Gizey literature. While ideophones are classified as a separate word class (part-of-speech)

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Iconic hand gestures from ideophones exhibit stability and emergent phonological properties: an iterated learning study

Cognitive Linguistics
Ideophones are marked words which depict sensory imagery and are usually considered iconic by native speakers (i.e., ideophones sound like what they mean). Owing to shared cross-linguistic characteristics of expressive prosody, reduplication, and unusual
Thompson Arthur Lewis, Van Hoey Thomas, Chik Aaron Wing Cheung, Do Youngah   +3 more
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The indigenization of Ghanaian Pidgin English

World Englishes, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 182-202, March 2024.
Abstract In the world Englishes literature, ‘indigenization’ is shorthand for the localization of Outer Circle Englishes in former exploitation colonies like Ghana. However, the localization of Ghanaian English has been continually reversed by ‘corrective’ realignment with world standard English through institutional regimes.
Kofi Yakpo
wiley   +1 more source

Structural markedness and depiction: the case of lower sequential predictability in Cantonese ideophones

, 2022
Ideophones are marked words that depict sensory imagery and are hypothesized to be structurally marked, i.e., exhibiting unique structural properties.
Yeung, F, Chan, M, Thompson, AL, Do, Y
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Ideophones in Manyika Shona: A Descriptive Analysis of Ideophones and their Function in Manyika (Bantu) [PDF]

, 2014
Ideophones are a class of words which occur in many languages throughout the world, but are relatively uncommon in English. Though often mimetic, ideophones are not to be confused with onomatopoeia since they extend well beyond the narrow scope of sound ...
Franck, Genevieve E.
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Ideophones: honing in on a descriptive and typological concept

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
This paper introduces the special issue of Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, entitled “Ideophones: honing in on a descriptive and typological concept”, edited by Aimée Lahaussois, Julie Marsault and Yvonne Treis.
Julie Marsault, Aimée Lahaussois, Yvonne Treis   +2 more
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Translating English Sound Symbolism in Italian Comics: A Corpus-Based Linguistic Analysis across Six Decades (1932–1992)

Arts, 2020
Linking interdisciplinarity and multimodality in translation studies, this paper will analyse the diachronic translation of English ideophones in Italian Disney comics. This is achieved thanks to the compiling of a bi-directional corpus of sound symbolic
Pier Simone Pischedda
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